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    Once Were Lions: The Players’ Stories: Inside the World’s Most Famous Rugby Team
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    Once Were Lions: The Players’ Stories: Inside the World’s Most Famous Rugby Team
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    Once Were Lions: The Players’ Stories: Inside the World’s Most Famous Rugby Team

    By Jeff Connor and Martin Hannan

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateApr 30, 2009
    ISBN9780007325900
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    Once Were Lions: The Players’ Stories: Inside the World’s Most Famous Rugby Team
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    Jeff Connor

    Jeff Connor is rugby correspondent for the Mail on Sunday. He is the author of eleven books, including an entertaining account of the Tour De France, ‘Wide-Eyed and Legless’, and ‘Up Down and Under’, a diary of the 2001 Lions Rugby Tour to Australia. ‘Pointless, A Season with Britain's Worst Football Team’, will be published by Headline in 2005.

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